an update on sufficiency...
August 20, 2002
i started reading "travelling light" by max lucado this morning. it really hit home with me. i think the most impactful sentence i read was something about being tired and stuff and how could God use us if we are so tired physically. that really made me think about myself because like i've said i've been running all over the place lately and i just need to calm down. i mean, if we're to serve God, we need to give Him our all - that means giving Him our ENERGY and all that stuff to.
we had practice tonight at ETCBC. i was late. it was my bad. jon was waiting outside for like 20 minutes or so.. aiya.. i have to make it up to him cuz like it was totally in his eye... tony showed up tonight too. so things are like moving along now quite nicely. we just have to arrange all the songs a little better or whatever. i think a lot of our time is wasted going over what we talk about, as opposed as making NEW things up. maybe it's cuz of lack of practice on our own part or something? *shrugs*
but we talked to tim about it afterwards (just me and justin). it's like we've hit this plateau or something. we meet together to practice, but we're not getting better. we just meet to go over stuff and remember what we talked about the last practice. tim and joanne were saying that it's easy to get to 75%, but to get to 85% or even 90% is REALLY hard. and we need to be really focused to get there.
so their suggestions were basically:
a) be FOCUSED during practices
b) don't goof off during the practice
c) try different layerings - use different instrumentation for songs - ex. we're basically use the same instruments for each song, so they ALL sound the same - we need to mix it up.. maybe like only female vocals - or like more acoustic sets. it really depends on the song. like the intimate/confession times, lighten the arrangement up. tim said they only had like guitar/piano, and him and jo singing for be magnified. so yeah, we need to try different instrumentation. he said that the KEYBOARD could do a lot - so maybe we can play with that. :)
only THREE more practices left until august 31st.. oh my............... i'm really nervous/excited about it....
also, me and justin scored a HUGE rock tonight after our practice.
it was jokes.. really jokes! we dropped off the keys at tim's place, and then we were kinda scouting the area near his place and we found some pretty good rocks.. so we like got a garbage bag from tim's house and then stuck it in my car. first we tried putting it in the back seats, but the door was getting in the way, so finally we decided to try the trunk. it was pretty frickin hard :P i like messed up my right forearm in softball on sunday, so it's still quite weak. we got the rock up a few times, but we kept dropping it cuz we had bad grip. eventually, we gave up and we called tim for reinforcements (this was like 12:20 AM ish). and then we tried for one last hero attempt and we got it into the trunk JUST as tim walked out. lol.. such silliness... my poor car.. the car like lowered a LOT after it sat there, and we heard some weird sounds.. oh my poor little protege.. what will happen to it!
so we drove it over to justin's house.. and got james to come out and help us move. man, having three people move it was SO MUCH easier! the first attempt was a success :) it'll be jokes when we move it to ETCBC, i think justin is going to move it on friday.
now all we need are some twigs, wash off the stones and we're all set!
i just listened to like the entire practice - we don't sound too bad.. it's decent actually! maybe justin and i are being too on ourselves? i totally see what tim means though. we have a lot of POTENTIAL. but i guess it's all about getting that potential to become into use? or something like that. but that'll only happen over time, practice and by God's grace of course! i really think this group has potential to do worship events or whatever in the future. just like john 4. :)
gotta keep praying about it! and for august 31st. :)
but i should be off to bed now! it's almost 2 am. i seem to be sleeping at around 2 am nowadays - geez, i'm not even back in school yet and i'm sleeping this late still.. aiya!
g'nite!
Posted by Leo Chan at August 20, 2002 1:57 AM
